Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Obedient

Obedient , adjective

[Old French obedient, Latin obediens, oboediens, -entis. present participle of obedire, oboedire, to obey. See Obey.]

Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.
And floating straight, obedient to the stream. — Shakespeare
The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command. — Pope